If, in spite of all the efforts of the Āzhvār to see the Lord outwardly, He abstained from the Āzhvār the other alternative would be for him to forget all about the Lord and carry on as before. But then, the Lord has endowed the Āzhvār with the appropriate knowledge and is perpetually in front of his mind’s eye. Forgetting the Lord is, therefore, out of the question. And
In this tenth pāśuram, as elucidated in the commentaries of our venerable ācāryas, Śrī Nammāzhvār expresses a profound and heart-rending distress. Having ardently desired to behold the physical, manifest form of Emperumān—resplendent with His divine hand and the glorious cakra—the Āzhvār finds himself denied this beatific vision. In its place, a vivid and inescapable